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Sorbom, Brandon
Oral history interview with Brandon Sorbom, 2021 May 24-26.
In this interview, Brandon Sorbom, Chief Science Officer at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, discusses the development of his company and interest in nuclear fusion. Sorbom speaks about his time as an undergraduate student at Loyola Marymount University where he majored in Electrical Engineering and Physics and how he discovered his interest in fusion during this time. He describes how his interest in nuclear fusion led him to pursue graduate school at MIT. He details his time as a graduate student working at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, as well as his experience working with his advisor Dennis Whyte. Sorbom discusses how he first became involved in the development of SPARC, whose goal is to generate net energy from fusion, during his time at MIT. He details the variety of investors for his company and the roles he and his cofounders take on within CSF. Sorbom explains CSFs current project of demonstrating that superconducting magnets at high fields can be used in fusion. Lastly, Sorbom discusses how fusion energy will likely become the dominant form of energy in the future and how it can help combat climate change.
Brandon Sorbom is the Chief Science Officer at Commonwealth Fusion Systems. He completed his graduate studies at MIT where we worked at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
Greenwald, M. (Martin)
Whyte, Dennis G.
Loyola Marymount University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Climatic changes
Electrical engineering
Fusion.
Nuclear fusion
Plasma physics.
Superconducting magnets.
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Zierler, David, 1979- interviewer.
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American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
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